You might also want to check out the exhibit in the park visitor center. In one of the areas you are drawn into the lush, marshy edge of San Francisco Bay during the 1770s. A huge mural depicts a wind-swept Yelamu village and in front of it sits a tule reed canoe. http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/waterfrontexhibit.htm

Linda Yamane, a Native American consultant, worked with the park to ensure the accuracy of the mural in the visitor center depicting a wind-swept Yelamu village that was near the Golden Gate during the 1770s. She also made the tule reed canoe she is sitting behind!